mental health AIDS

Winter 2006 Newsletter / Volume 7, Issue 2

Harlem United

Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc., has been serving Central/East Harlem and the South Bronx communities of New York City since 1988. This nonprofit community-based organization has developed successful strategies for reaching individuals who are difficult to engage and retain in care. Services include adult day health care; scattered-site housing; food and nutritional services; intensive case management; prevention, education and policy services; and pastoral care and bereavement counseling.

With funding from CMHS/SAMHSA, Harlem United has been able to establish its Mobile Mental Health Program, a cross-agency service model designed to address the mental health needs of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino(a) individuals living with HIV/AIDS and mental illness. Services include mental health and substance use assessments, crisis intervention, individual and family counseling, psychotherapy, support groups, psychotropic medication consultation/management, treatment adherence evaluation and support, and risk reduction education.

Mental health, substance use, and HIV services are provided to clients in their homes or in other low-threshold or nontraditional settings and are available whenever they are requested. By tailoring services to the needs of the individual, staff members at Harlem United are able to establish the trusting bond necessary to connect clients to care.

The long-term goals of the program are to keep clients engaged in services and to help them move toward higher threshold (i.e., office-based) services and on to recovery from mental illness and substance use, as well as better management of their HIV disease.

The Principal Investigator is Patrick McGovern; the Project Director is Matthew Rofofsky, CSW; and the Clinical Director is Michael Mendola, PsyD. For more information, please call 212/803-2850 or go to http://www.harlemunited.org/.

– Compiled by the MHHSC Program Coordinating Center

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